Techno

Excellent cd from Detroits Omar s.
 
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For the 50th installment of Fabric's celebrated mix series Martyn lays down one of the freshest mixes you're likely to hear this year. His meteoric rise to the vanguard of all things deep, techy, funky and steppin' is entirely warranted by a series of deadly productions that surely need no introduction round here. Much like his peer Kode 9, the Dutchman's DJ sets over the last 12 months have increasingly looked beyond dubstep's peripheries to the fields of synthfunk, hiphop, housed-up ruffage and broken beat electronix, scanning the oncoming waves of percussively rooted dance music to cherry pick the very tastiest chunks of goodness. For Fabric 50 he's assorted one of the most enviable trackists around, securing awesome exclusives like Kode 9's galloping 'Oozi', multiple tricks from Zomby on the mindblowing 'Light Cycle', 'Little Miss Naughty' and utterly immense 'Mercury's Rainbow', and kinky dubs from Roska like his Uncle Bakongo production 'Afar' or the killer 'Without It'. Outright anthems are in no short supply either, coming from Altered Natives 'Rass Out', Jan Driver's rave alarming 'Rat Alert', Dorian Concept's 'Trilingual Dance Sexperience', and 2562's 'Flashback'. Keeping his brief spread wide, he also incorporates super-solid groove tools from Cooly G, Madd Slinky, Ben Klock, Levon Vincent and Joy Orbison to keep the curve on a brilliantly varied but controlled trajectory for the floor. It's probably going to be another six months before half of these tracks reach the shop floor, and the other other half are simply stone cold essential, so there's very little doubt as to what you gotta do here. Immense.
 
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Rhythm has always been the string that holds together the vibrant, flowing fabric of John Tejada's career - even from the age of 8, when he lost himself in a love affair with the drums, or from the age of 12, when he first started DJing. Far too young to DJ at clubs, John spent his youth DJing hip hop ("The stuff that struck me most was always sort of Arthur Baker sound - Planet Rock, Planet Pattrol, Egyptian Lover and the Kraftwerk influence") at school dances and throughout the backyard party scene in sunny Los Angeles. It's rather difficult to imagine John Tejada, nothing short of a techno legend - a linchpin in the scene's development as a seminal producer, DJ, remixer and label owner - being a hip hop DJ.
 
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Exceptional 14 track album
 

'fabric 09: Slam' is a pulse-taking collection of upfront, up-beat body music. Smoothly mixed at breakneck pace, Stuart and Orde keep four-hands-on-decks at all times, pulling in rhythms and throwing down grooves: this is a now-or-never mix - exciting, rush-inducing, forward-looking. Highlights? Try the Dragnet horns of Tony Thomas or Envoy's huge Chi-town groove. There's Slam's own hip injecting dub of Ladytron and Danilo Vigorito's deep spaced sounds. Get tough with Marco Carola's mix of Sven Vath's 'Steel' and Redhead's shriek-beat missile, then ease down with Tulasonic's sub zero soundscape drifting into UR's heart-stealing masterpiece, 'Inspiration'. This is the sound that Slam built.
 

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1. Break 3000 - Flash 1
 
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